Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-11-24
A NEW THING IN BEEF.
Phil Armour Supplying Iowa cities
With Meat.

The Davenport Democrat Gazette of y
| recent date contains the following. o
interest to the people Of Iowa: 1hS
butchers In the city are considerably eA.
| cited over movement OF Phi Armour
control the beef trade In Davenport. Lasl
week two agents Of Armour came to III,
| city soliciting orders for meat, agreeing
! TO furnish it from Kansas City, placing
here al three and half cents per pound
| Only two dealers gave them order, how
ever, all the Others declaring they would
never order pound Of meat from Ar
mour. This morning a car containing
| five thousand pounds of beef was brought
to the city. and sideiruckcd for the pur!
pose of selling the meat II wholesale,
| The two orders given last week were I'LL
ed--bul the buyers notified the agent
that they would buy no more meat from
him. So the agent proposes to open u
meat market here, aud control the trade
by selling at prices that will draw Gus.
toners from other butchers. The object
j., Of course. Ia get monopoly If the
trade. The local butchers propose 10 re-
,ist Armours object TO the utmost They
want the cattle raisers in the county Ia
help them. OF course il is for The interest
of breeders to do this. The butchers pay
two and half cents at the farms. If
Armour accomplishes his object, the local
trade IN cattle will be greatly damaged.if
not entirely wiped out. except for shipment
east. and prices will drop 10 unremunera.
tive figures. All can see that il is for the
interest Of the farmers TO help the butch.
ers in their fight with Armour.
The butchers propose. too, that the city
nd tpl ff.I, mill nj
cunvent Phil. Armour. They desire the
passage OF an ordinance for the inspection
of cattle bought for slaughter before kill
ing, and PROHIBITING the sale Of meat Of
cattle not thus Inspected. They say that
NOBODY can tell whether the meat that
Armour proposes TO place on the market
is from diseased cattle or not. The cattle
are killed in Kansas City, and are not
subject to inspection. As health meas
ure. as a protection for the people, such
an ordinance wonld be valid. OF course.
Such an ordinance was passed by the city
council in Rock Island year ago Then
an abbattoir was established, but the
butchers combined to render il void and
the abbot,oir useless expense. But
now that Armour proposes To supply the
butchers of that city rs well as Davenport
with meat or else plant market for the
sale of il, the butchers of Rock Island VIII
gladly see the inspection ordinance en-
forced. With such an ordinance in force
In Davenport Mr.. Armour would have to
bring his cattle here for slaughter. which
he would probably not think of doing
and his meat enterprise would be effectu-
ally put down. The local butchers claim,
too, that il is not for the advantage Of
the meat buying people to encourage
Armour, because. while his prices will be
low at first. after he has secured the con-
troll of the trade he will advance his
figures TO a higher rate than the average
al present. The resident butchers have
put their war paint on, aud will fight Mr.,
Armour at every step.